Predictive analytics: Microsoft Excel
"Excel predictive analytics for serious data crunchers! The movie Moneyball made predictive analytics famous: Now you can apply the same techniques to help your business win. You don't need multimillion-dollar software: All the tools you need are available in Microsoft Excel, and all the knowledge and skills are right here ... Conrad Carlberg shows you how to use Excel predictive analytics to solve real-world problems in areas ranging from sales and marketing to operations. Carlberg offers unpr…
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- Full title :Predictive analytics : Microsoft Excel / Conrad Carlberg.
Summary
"Excel predictive analytics for serious data crunchers! The movie Moneyball made predictive analytics famous: Now you can apply the same techniques to help your business win. You don't need multimillion-dollar software: All the tools you need are available in Microsoft Excel, and all the knowledge and skills are right here ... Conrad Carlberg shows you how to use Excel predictive analytics to solve real-world problems in areas ranging from sales and marketing to operations. Carlberg offers unprecedented insight into building powerful, credible, and reliable forecasts, showing how to gain deep insights from Excel that would be difficult to uncover with costly tools such as SAS or SPSS. You'll get an extensive collection of downloadable Excel workbooks you can easily adapt to your own unique requirements, plus VBA code - much of it open-source - to streamline several of this book's most complex techniques. Step by step, you'll build on Excel skills you already have, learning advanced techniques that can help you increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve productivity. By mastering predictive analytics, you'll gain a powerful competitive advantage for your company and yourself."--Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Que Pub
- Place of Publication:Indianapolis, Ind
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 290 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780789749413, 0789749416
- oclc:ocn775414207
- LC Classification:HD30.27
- Dewey Decimal:650.0285/554
Table of Contents
Building a collector -- Linear regression -- Forecasting with moving averages -- Forecasting a time series: smoothing -- Forecasting a time series: regression -- Logistic regression: the basics -- Logistic regression: further issues -- Principal components analysis -- Box-Jenkins ARIMA models -- Varimax factor rotation in excel.
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